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Australia news live: Pocock buys billboards to pressure Chalmers on gas export tax; survey reveals national gloom

ACT independent David Pocock is calling for a 25% tax on gas exports to fund welfare and housing. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcas...

Australia has been a sanctuary from the populist right’s onslaught. Is it now living on borrowed time?

Australia has been averse to ideological extremes but, after two decades of growing inequality and public policy stasis, the country’s robust democratic formula is facing challenge...

Guardian Essential poll: Labor’s housing and tax changes fail to win over voters as support for One Nation swells

Just 25% of Australians polled back the budget while the majority believe the government has fallen short of expectations over the past yearFollow our Australia news live blog for...

Budget to include extra $2bn for infrastructure – as it happened

This blog is now closedGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastWilson promises Coalition will be ‘very clear’ on migrationWilson is asked about comments made by...

Liberal MP is first to be suspended from lower house in five years – as it happened

This blog is now closedGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastWere the teal party conversations sparked by the government’s electoral reforms?Yes and no, Allegr...

Budget 2026 live updates: Angus Taylor promises to index tax brackets, run coal ‘long and hard’ and scrap EV concessions...

Follow opposition leader’s budget in reply speech liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastHolding Jewish people responsible for Israel a ‘building block’ of...

Australia news live: Victorian Liberal leader again refuses to rule out One Nation deal in November; federal Labor may e...

Nepean result shows ‘Liberals can’t govern without One Nation’, premier says. Follow updates liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastCanavan defends Coalitio...

Guardian Essential poll: Pauline Hanson has another breakthrough - podcast

The One Nation leader now has a higher job approval rating than Anthony Albanese and Angus Taylor, and for the first time in the Essential poll – the right wing populist party is o...

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Pocock open to independents forming party to counter Hanson – as it happened

This blog is now closed. Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastClimate activists say they have blocked two coal ships from entering Newcastle portClimate activ...

What are we here for? Anthony Albanese’s Labor government faces the defining test of its appetite for reform

In the first of a two-part series, Labor insiders weigh up the competing stresses on the government in what was meant to be its central year to deliver changeFollow our Australia n...

PM says opposition ‘reduced to a farce’ as government targeted over CGT – as it happened

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Australia news live: Angus Taylor says booing on Anzac Day ‘shouldn’t happen’ but welcome to country ‘overused’; Victori...

Opposition leader says he believes ceremony has been ‘devalued’ by ‘overuse’. Follow the day’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe health and ND...

Anatomy of a policy: how One Nation’s anti-immigration stance on housing became Coalition strategy

Discriminating against non-citizens in Australia was until recent days a fringe approach – but Angus Taylor has taken the idea and run with itGet our breaking news email, free app...

Officials to meet Australians detained by Israel – as it happened

This blog is now closedLabor denies CGT reform will ‘kill startups’ as tech giant Canva warns of stifling innovationGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe N...

The ugly politics of chasing One Nation – Full Story newsroom edition

There were ugly scenes at Anzac Day dawn services when a small handful of people booed during the welcome to country in several cities. Most politicians condemned the behaviour, in...

Angus Taylor’s immigration error – Back to Back Barries podcast

Barrie Cassidy and Tony Barry deliver their verdict on Budget week – including the opposition leader, Angus Taylor’s focus on reducing migration numbers to solve the housing crisis...

Labor’s primary vote slumps after broken promise budget

The government was marked down by voters for breaking election vows not to touch tax breaks for negative gearing or capital gains, with 36 per cent saying their view of Labor had b...

Chalmers complains of ‘unhinged scare campaign’ against changes – as it happened

This blog is now closedGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastData reveals how Coles and Woolworths switch promotions in syncYou’re looking to buy an electric t...

Will Australia’s Independents Form a Political Party?

New campaign finance laws put the Community Independents Project at a crossroads.

Australia news live: PM rules out new gas export tax on existing contracts; protester refuses to enter plea over ‘insane...

Meanwhile King Charles praises ‘ambitious’ Aukus and expresses pride in Australia in speech to US Congress. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily n...

Back to Back Barries: Angus Taylor’s migration muddle - podcast

Barrie Cassidy and Tony Barry deliver their verdict on the federal budget – including opposition leader Angus Taylor’s targeting of migrants in an effort to solve the housing crisi...

Australia news live: Beau Lamarre-Condon’s mother to remain in custody; Mark Latham ordered to pay Alex Greenwich $100,0...

Coleen Lamarre, 63, was arrested on Wednesday and charged with perverting the course of justice. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast...

Guardian Essential poll: Pauline Hanson has another breakthrough - podcast

The One Nation leader now has a higher job approval rating than Anthony Albanese and Angus Taylor, and, for the first time in the Essential poll, the rightwing populist party is ou...